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A bit is a "yes" or a "no".
One character is 8 bits or one byte.
The longest word to appear in the Macquarie Dictionary is dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; it contains 31 characters or 248 bits.
An average size novel
contains about 500,000 characters.
Our novel contains
500 KB or
4 Mbits.
An encyclopedia
corresponds approximately in size to
2500 novels.
Our encyclopedia contains
1,25 Gb or
10 Gbits.
A library
has many books and
encyclopedias.
Let's assume that
an average size library contains
6250 Gb or
50 Tbits.
We can now create a similar table to the table of the previous page.